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Debian/Ubuntu packages

Requires: Linux Debian/Ubuntu

Provides: Player, Stage, Gazebo

For Ubuntu 9.10 or superior go to:

https://launchpad.net/~thjc/+archive/ppa/

Click on "Technical Details about this PPA", select your Ubuntu version and then add the generated lines in the Other Software tab in System>Administration>Software Sources.

Note: Using Gazebo from these packages doesn't work for me on Ubuntu 9.10. But using Gazebo compiled from svn rev. 8325 worked fine (with some minor bugs). To avoid compiling Ogre 1.6.4 i used the debian sid packages - B2ag

Fedora packages

Requires: Fedora 11 or higher

Provides: Player, Stage

Player is available directly from Fedora's repositories. Fedora 11 and up all have packages for the latest Player version that was available during the respective Fedora release cycle. You can install all of the Player components by running the command:

Stage is also included in Fedora 11 and beyond. To install all of the Stage components, run the command:

yum install stage stage-devel stage-playerplugin

Fedora 9 and 10 have packages for Player 2.1.1. They can be installed with the instructions above, but Player 2.1.1 does not have the "player-ruby" package. No releases of Fedora before Fedora 11 include packages for Stage.

Gentoo packages

Requires: Linux Gentoo

Provides: Player, Stage, Gazebo

Gentoo ebuilds for Player, Stage and Gazebo can be found here (thanks to Victor Manuel Jaquez Leal):

The installation instructions can be found in the Gentoo wiki's HOWTO install Gazebo/Player/Stage
If you want to use player from within python, you will need player-2.0.3. Otherwise, "import playerc" will fail.

OS X/Fink/Gazebo

Requires: OS X Fink

Provides: Gazebo 0.5 dependencies

Warning: Gazebo 0.5 is outdated!

Lars Cremean has kindly provide a shell script that will install the required dependencies for Gazebo. This script will apt-get binaries when they are available, and install from source when they are not.

Windows

Requires: Windows XP or higher

Provides: Player

As of Player 3, all Player releases are also released with Windows installer packages. The installer is available from SourceForge. Windows users will need to add the Player bin/ and lib/ directories to the system PATH.

Player needs the pthreads-win32 libraries to function correctly on Windows. The pthread-vc2 library should be download from the pthreads-win32 page and also placed on the system PATH.

Additional dependencies

On most systems additional libraries will need to be installed in order to compile Player/Stage/Gazebo, and some of these missing libraries may not be identified by the configure script. The libraries you may need to install on your system are listed below.

Player/Gazebo 0.7 under Ubuntu Dapper 6.06

To compile with gzbuilder and terrain models you'll need to install these libraries: